I can't stand it anymore! This is an axle!

**Narangga** · 30th August 2008, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by Sleepy

Ron, you must realize I specialize in using Microsoft spell check's so I alway's get it right.

By the way Microsoft says it's an Ax

(Will quickly check my post's for eny error's but.)

Originally Posted by p38arover

This man is a troll!

BTW, to complete your list of errors, you should have left the apostrophe out of "it's"

Can we have a second opinion on that?

**p38arover** · 30th August 2008, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by Stuuu

Can we have a second opinion on that?

No.

The apostrophe is correct in the normal use of "it's" in that sentence. However, Sleepy made a concerted effort to put errors into the text. Therefore, to be consistent, Sleepy should have left out the apostrophe.

Hence the admonition.

Simple, really!

Bugger, we got to apostrophes a day early!

I'll have to move on to spaces after a comma or full stop, not before.

**Lotz-A-Landies** · 30th August 2008, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

...
... I'll have to move on to spaces after a comma or full stop, not before.

Ron

Is that spaces after a full stop or two spaces after a full stop and only one space after a Commer.

Diana

P.S. Maybe I would rather have two spaces between me and a Commer, particularly a Commer "Knocker" lest they bump into my car.

P.P.S. Yes I Know it's comma, however I had to obey Murphry's Law.

**JDNSW** · 31st August 2008, 06:07 AM

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Ron

Is that spaces after a full stop or two spaces after a full stop and only one space after a Commer.

Diana

P.S. Maybe I would rather have two spaces between me and a Commer, particularly a Commer "Knocker" lest they bump into my car.

P.P.S. Yes I Know it's comma, however I had to obey Murphry's Law.

Yes, but do you know it is Murphy's not Murphry's!

John

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 31st August 2008, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by p38arover

Cor! That was hard to read!

is that a real word???
(yes I know about the pommy comic,,,

)

**JDNSW** · 31st August 2008, 06:42 AM

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

is that a real word???
(yes I know about the pommy comic,,,

)

cor int. colloq. expressing surprise, alarm, exasperation etc.

(ACOED 3rd ed. 1997)

**Narangga** · 31st August 2008, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

cor int. colloq. expressing surprise, alarm, exasperation etc.

(ACOED 3rd ed. 1997)

Blimey!

**p38arover** · 31st August 2008, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Yes, but do you know it is Murphy's not Murphry's!

John

Muphry's actually. See Threepenny Planet: Muphry's Law

Diana, the number of spaces has been the subject of discussion elsewhere.

I still subscribe to two spaces after a full stop but this forum software removes extraneous spaces (as does other forum software).

**Narangga** · 31st August 2008, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by p38arover

Muphry's actually. See Threepenny Planet: Muphry's Law

Diana, the number of spaces has been the subject of discussion elsewhere.

I still subscribe to two spaces after a full stop but this forum software removes extraneous spaces (as does other forum software).

I think it's (oops!) better too Ron, but when we worked with a publisher for the book in the late 90s that was one thing they said had gone. It is now typographically correct to have one space after a full stop.

**p38arover** · 31st August 2008, 07:19 AM

Originally Posted by Stuuu

I think it's (oops!) better too Ron, but when we worked with a publisher for the book in the late 90s that was one thing they said had gone. It is now typographically correct to have one space after a full stop.

Yes, it changed in the late Eighties in a couple of style books I read at the time (including, I think, the Aust. Govt. style book).

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